http://developer.nvidia.com/category/zone/cuda-zone
http://developer.nvidia.com/opencl
http://developer.amd.com/zones/OpenCLZone/universities/Pages/default.aspx
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/opencl-sdk/
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Yes we know about GPGPU computing. In fact OpenMalaria is currently single-core only and making it multi-threaded would be a good start. The main reason we haven't done this is that adding new models has higher development priority right now. However: (a) some code restructuring would be needed to still make it possible to reproduce results with multiple threads, due to the random number generator, and (b) GPGPU computation is only efficient when the stream processors are all executing the same code without jumps, and I suspect the nature of OpenMalaria's code means there would be too many jumps to make efficient use of the processors. It may not be impossible to use GPGPU for OpenMalaria, but don't expect the kind of ultra-high performance GPGPU computation is touted for: that just doesn't apply to all computation.
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Will the screen saver ever be making a come-back, though? I miss the Malaria screen saver.
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Will the screen saver ever be making a come-back, though? I miss the Malaria screen saver.
The screen-saver code is there, but probably it needs some updates. Does anyone want to help with this?
The screen saver did significantly reduce the performance of our malaria simulations in past tests though, so it's not necessarily useful to have.
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The screen-saver code is there, but probably it needs some updates. Does anyone want to help with this?
The screen saver did significantly reduce the performance of our malaria simulations in past tests though, so it's not necessarily useful to have.
I know someone who's willing to do it. See your PM for details.
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Will the screen saver ever be making a come-back, though? I miss the Malaria screen saver.
The screen-saver code is there, but probably it needs some updates. Does anyone want to help with this?
The screen saver did significantly reduce the performance of our malaria simulations in past tests though, so it's not necessarily useful to have.
I agree that it reduces the actual crunching output but so does the screensaver for all projects. I think the screensaver is an easy way to get people interested in crunching for a particular project, and then them turning it off is an easy way for them to become a more hard core cruncher!
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